Short Information about loaded kernel modules

There are couple of ways you can find the information on the loadable kernel modules. All these would always involve calling lsmod to get the loaded kernel modules and then calling modinfo to get the info on the loaded modules. I will show you with examples:

modinfo will list the filename, authour and other related info for the modules. So if you wanted to get the info for all the modules, then the easiest way would be to do :

lsmod|xargs modinfo

But as you can see, this will list all the info on the module, which is not really required. So there were couple of posts on commandlinefu, that takes care of displaying only the required information, viz. filename, authour and dependency. Here are the commands: